Among other attacks in France, reports the Sunday Times Leader, on July 20th "a mob of 400 armed with petrol bombs rampaged into the mainly Jewish Paris suburb of Sarcelles and attacked a synagogue, a pharmacy, and a kosher supermarket. Their banners, reading 'Death to Jews" and 'Slit Jews' throats,' were chilling." The supermarket burned to the ground.

In Hamburg, Germany, anti-Israel protesters attacked an elderly Jewish man in during a pro-Israel event, and then began beating his daughter when she rushed to his aid.

In Wuppertal, Germany, an 18-year-old Palestinian was arrested on July 31st for hurling three Molotov cocktails into the Bergische synagogue. Noted the London Times, "the symbolism of the target has not been lost on the Jewish community, which rebuilt the synagogue after it was burnt to the ground on Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Jews in November, 1938."

And according to the Washington Post, a week earlier, "Israel Daos, a shy, 18-year-old Orthodox Jew, was punched in the face on his way to a synagogue in central Berlin. Daos described his assailant as 'Arab or Turkish.' 'I heard what the protesters had been saying, because they march not far from here, and I have heard them shout, "Death to Jews! "' said Daos. 'But I did not think things would get this bad."

Elsewhere in Germany, protesters have reportedly chanted "Jew, Jew, cowardly pig, come out and fight alone!" while an imam allegedly "called on Muslims to murder Jews in a sermon," the Daily Telegraph reports.

A politician in Lower Saxony, according to Britain's Telegraph, "had to resign from Angela Merkel's CDU party after he posted a comment on his Facebook page in reaction to the alleged revenge killing of a Palestinian boy in Jerusalem, saying 'Jews are shit.'"

And an 18-year-old Jewish man claimed to have been punched in the face as he walked in the center of Berlin wearing a yarmulke.

Anti-Semitism has also emerged in Italy, where such incidents are ordinarily rare. According to the New York Times, "Even in historically tolerant Italy, anti-Semitic smears have appeared on the streets of Rome. Jewish shop windows in several neighborhoods were defaced this week with swastikas and tags reading 'Torch the synagogues' and 'Jews your end is near.' Police suspect that right-wing extremists, possibly along with pro-Palestinian activists, carried out the acts."

In the Netherlands, a spokeswoman for the Center for Information and Documentation Israel, a Jewish civil rights organization, told a local television reporter that where they usually receive three to five calls per week, in one week in July alone they received more than 70.

At a pro-ISIS rally in the Hague, demonstrators repeated a rhyming chant that called for "Jews from the sewers" to be killed, and sounded out the "Khaybar" refrain. Police did not intervene.

According to Holland's AT-5 News, "There has never been so much anti-Semitism on the Internet." Two examples: A tweet from an undisclosed account that read, "I hope that all – and I mean all—Jews die, and not a single one remains"; and from someone else, "I hate the fucking Jews more than the Nazis." Indeed, the Dutch Center for Reports on Discrimination stated that in the week of July 20, it noted more anti-Semitism on the Internet than ever before in its 17-year history.

Stones shattered the glass door to the Amsterdam home of Dutch senior rabbi Binjamin Jacobs, earlier this month. It was not the first time his home had been attacked, according to CIDI. The stones were likely purchased for this purpose.

Also in Amsterdam, Seraphina Verhofstadt was severely beaten after hanging an Israeli flag on her balcony in Amsterdam. Her attackers she alleged, "stomped on my stomach, hit my ribs and my head."

The Amsterdam home of Leah Rabinovitch, a prominent Dutch-Mexican woman who is also Jewish, was firebombed in July after she had hung an Israeli flag on her balcony. Rabinovitch also received threats, including "Hitler will be back" and "Jews must die."

Meantime, in Britain, "Antisemitic incidents in Britain rose by a third in the first six months of this year, and have rapidly increased further in the past four weeks as Israel's military operation in Gaza continues," reports the Jewish Chronicle, citing data from Britain's Community Security Trust..

"The six-monthly rise, combined with July's figures, means 2014 is likely to be one of the worst years of anti-Semitism ever recorded in this country."

Unsurprisingly, then, across the UK, the hashtag #HitlerDidNothingWrong circulated widely on Twitter, according to the Independent.

Other incidents according to the Independent: in Manchester, England, a "group of men" drove through the Jewish quarter, throwing eggs and soda cans and yelling "Heil Hitler." In Gateshead, four students attacked a rabbi near a boarding school. And in Belfast, the windows of a local synagogue were smashed.

In Borgerhout, Belgium, hundreds chanted in Arabic, with references to killings and the destruction of the Jews.

In Antwerp, a young mother of four was told at a local clothing shop that "We don't sell to Jews." In the shop window, a sign in French and Turkish stated, "Dogs welcome. Jews not."

Two weeks later, an Antwerp doctor refused to treat a Jewish woman suffering from a broken rib, telling her son, "Send her to Gaza for a few hours, then she'll get rid of the pain."

In Spain, a July 24 op-ed that ran in El Mundo stated that, "The Hebrew people, tested since antiquity by ups and downs and the intimate dealings with their God, could have done much good for humanity: due to their prudence, their wisdom and endurance, their apparent religious fidelity and their proven administration of money.….What is happening is that suddenly humanity is sick and tired of them… It is normal that they manage to screw the weakest or those who today enjoy their ancient lands. It is always the same. It's not strange that they have been so frequently expelled. What is surprising, is that they persist. Either they are not good, or someone is poisoning them. I am not a racist."

And in May, when Madrid Real lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv, reports the Gatestone Institute, 18,000 people took to Twitter to express their sentiments. Some of the more hateful tweets included:

"We've been defeated by bloody Jews. Hitler would not have allowed this to happen."

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IOt's spreadin to America

Submitted by Jim, Aug 9, 2014 18:37

Just read this on the Breitbart site. Breaking: Rabbi Fatally Shot While Walking to North Miami Beach Temple. According to Miami-Dade police, as reported in a story from the Miami NBC affiliate, two young males approached 60-year-old Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Joseph Raksin Saturday morning as he was walking to his North Miami Beach temple on the 800 block of NE 175th Street. The two males reportedly shot Raksin, who later died after being airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. The police said the suspects -- for whom they don't yet have a good description -- fled, one on a bicycle and one on foot. Law enforcement is also holding off labeling the attack a hate crime. But, as reported by the Miami CBS affiliate in a story from July 28, about two blocks from where Rabbi Raksin was shot, the Congregation Torah Ve'emunah, at 1000 N.E. 175th Street, was vandalized. Around 1 a.m. that morning, a member of a community watch group found swastikas and the word "Hamas" spray-painted on the pillars of the synagogue. The Saturday before, CBS reports, residents of Meridian Avenue, in a predominately Jewish neighborhood of Miami Beach, were leaving their home to attend a synagogue service when they discovered their cars had been vandalized. The two vehicles were covered in eggs and cream cheese, and the words "Hamas" and "Jew" were written on the car windows. Miami-Dade police are investigating the synagogue vandalism, while Miami Beach police are looking into the damage done to the cars. At the time CBS posted its story, there was no direct evidence linking the two incidents.

Let'a hope history doesn't repeat itself

Aug 5, 2014 19:22

The Jews are the target of hatred now, which group will be next? There will be another group. Hitler did not just target Jews.

The words "Jew, Jew, cowardly pig...." in german language: "Jude, Jude, feiges Schwein.." you can hear for more times, example at 1:15

There was another Demo in Essen (also Germany) where activists cried "Death to the Jews". There is also a video on youtube but that has english subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zoukXdlOvE

At 2:58 you find these words.

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